There are many Sri Lankans studying, working and some even settled in foreign countries like Canada, USA, Australia and European countries. There is a tendency among Sri Lankan youth also to migrate to these countries. Within this background, there is a lot of misinformation circulating on social media related to foreign job opportunities. This is […]
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Gagan Malik is the actor playing “Prince Siddhartha” in the famous movie “Shri Siddhartha Gautama”. Within this context, a lot of social media posts are being shared in cyberspace claiming that Gagan Malik has become a Buddhist monk, and those posts try to convince the general public that he enunciated all mundane things and enters […]
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FSSAI has refuted the claims of plastic rice. The videos originally shows the plastic granulation process in Korea based company named Hanwha Total Petrochemical Co. Ltd. A video allegedly showing a rice mill where plastic sheets converted to create artificial plastic rice is circulating on social media. The users sharing the video claim that the […]
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Chinese researchers have said that they have found a type of coronavirus that spreads among bats in South Africa. It is called NeoCov. With the emergence of their findings, News articles mentioned NeoCov as the new deadly variant of Coronavirus which causes Covid-19 disease. Users have been claiming NeoCov is going to be the next […]
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COVID19 pandemic continues to have a great impact among communities around the world, amounting to over 5 million deaths over the past 2 year period. Despite best efforts of the health officials in promoting vaccination drives, emergence of new virus variants have made the task of minimizing the spread of virus even more difficult as […]
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Various countries use varying methods for electricity generation as well as power/electricity transmission across the country. In this backdrop, we noticed viral social media posts claiming that human-like pylons were being used in Iceland to carry the electricity across the country. However, our investigation proves these claims are misleading. Social Media Posts A Facebook user posted a […]
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There are many occasions where readers get misled due to misleading newspaper headlines and reports. This is our investigation related to such a misleading story published by the Daily Mirror about Opposition Leader , Sajith Premadasa. Media Reports On the 24th January 2022, Daily Mirror newspaper carried a front-page story related to Sajith Premadasa, the opposition leader of Sri Lanka. The […]
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Sri Lanka and China have shared strong bilateral ties over the years and with a number of ongoing Chinese projects, aids and loans, there have been mixed reactions among the Sri Lankan public on the future outcome of these increased interactions. With the ongoing developments involving Colombo Port City Project, we noticed more noise on […]
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Tamil communities are spread across the world in significant numbers in many continents from Europe to Americas and Australia, apart from the bulk of the native speakers in India and Asia. As a result, at times we come across social media posts related to instances in which Tamil language and culture got recognized in some […]
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Some images that are being circulated on social media have misleading captions and narratives. This is one of our investigations related to such a viral image that has a misleading caption and story. The social media posts claim that the image depicts an abandoned village in Scotland. However, our investigation proves that the image is […]
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